Albir phil

Looks like a Barlow lens to me

Hi I'm not 100% sure but your image looks like it's a image of your optical system with the center black circle your secondry mirror ,outer circle the primary mirror.I would say yes you are way out of focus. 🤔

If you're just starting astro imaging it's best to use what you have and get use to it .Going into dedicated cameras is a different ball game .you have good mount ,best to use the 90mm FL is will be more forgiving on tracking than 600mm FL. I would start with 30sec exposure at 800iso take as many expo as you can .Hope this helps good luck👍

Very nice image nice fine detail and the core is not blown out .Great job👍👏

I found best is hammered finish applied with a brush 

Hi  this could well be the mount needs to know where it is in order to find an object. Hope this fixes your problem 😃👍

Ok this is what you do then it should work 1point mount north 2 level mount. choose 2star alignment let mount go-to first star then center star in fov. Acknowledge done mount goes to second star ,again center in fov . acknowledge done. Mount should now go to object you choose.This is the way I do it and I have no problems .if it dose not work then perhaps someone in sgl may be able to help .Hope you get it sorted.

Well if you are thinking about imaging then I would go for a DSLR camera, Samyang 135mm F2 lens ,and a tracking mount. To be honest imaging dose not come cheap.But it is possible to pick up some used items to keep cost down. I am not a youngster,and it can be hard to get your head around some things in imaging, but there is always someone here in SGL that has the answer you need . Good luck I'm sure you will succeed 😃🌠

4 hours ago, AstroRookie said:

Hi Phil,

I'm sorry but I can't visualize what you're describing, would you mind posting a picture, thanks!

AstroRookie

Hi I will sort some pic out for you in a few days meanwhile can you post some pictures of your mount and pier maybe then I could draw some brackets for you to look at . It's difficult to draw  unless I can see how best to fit brackets 🤔

Hi I to have a permanent mount and use pole master I did get some misalignment,I rectified this by making a L bracket with 2 horizontal slot's which I attached to the mount base and to the pier the slot's let me align if I need to but since doing this almost 1year ago I have never had to realign. Hope this helps you it works for me 😃

Very nice I like the first one best more detail and buildings are darker🌠

Well I'm no expert but it looks great to me, I would be chuffed with it. Thinking of getting the Samyang 135 myself but other things keep cropping up.Soon though I hope,great image👏👏

Never heard of built in counter wights.i have a 8inch mead with a sliding counter weight fitted

The universe is there for all fortunate to be able to see it's beauty however we choose to view it👀😃📷

Looks good some detail there . More subs would bring more detail and colours out ,I found 30 sec subs work well for me . It a good start👏👏

Ok thank for the advice

Yeah its canon ef

Hi think of buying Samyang 135 to fit on my zwo 533 colour camera,dose anyone know the best adapter required that will take 2inch filters 🤔

Great images what we're your exposure's 👏

I have a HEQ 5  this I run with a synscan dongle 80 Euro on my I pad or mobile.A USB extension Cable no problems 😀

That's a great image Ganymead give some scale 🌠👏

Some nice colour there, also you have kept the core from burning out . I like this image 👏🎊

Yeahs the silver Lenses are camera they could be Carl Zeiss Jenna from east Berlin. I had one some years ago they are very high quality lenses. Look on the front of the lens the make will be there.By the way you got a bargain well done👏

Stellarium will give you various FOV with different scope sizes as well as various eyepiece 

No problem I only have five to start with